The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 38
On the way he met a friend who was more cunning than Juan, and when he heard of the boy’s rich goat he decided to rob him.
Who acts: JUAN, friend · What happens: meet, be, hear, decide, rob · To what, where: friend, way, cunning, JUAN
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (JUAN, friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 friend | det |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 cunning | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cunning | cop |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 cunning | advmod |
| 11 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 friend | acl:relcl |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 Juan | case |
| 13 | Juan | Juan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cunning | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 decided | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 decided | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 heard | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 heard | nsubj |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 decided | advcl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 goat | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 boy | det |
| 21 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 goat | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 boy | case |
| 23 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 goat | amod |
| 24 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heard | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 decided | nsubj |
| 26 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 met | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 rob | mark |
| 28 | rob | rob | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 decided | xcomp |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 rob | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | JUAN | a friend | the way | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | is a | past | a friend | cunning | than Juan | tree rules | |||
| 3 | hear | past | JUAN | of the boy's rich goat | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of goat=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | decide | past | JUAN | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | rob not said to happen | to-infinitive | JUAN not said here | JUAN | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Source |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/22/38/